Little Nikita

Little Nikita

1988-03-17 • 1h 38m • PG •
Drama Action Thriller
6.1
User Score
115 votes

"He went to bed an all-American kid and woke up the son of Russian spies."

Overview

An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

Richard Benjamin

Director

John Hill

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$1,733,070

Runtime

1h 38m

Release Date

1988-03-17

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Reviews

kevin2019

kevin2019

2024-02-26T14:16:04.597Z

"Little Nikita" is a highly addictive film and it makes for compelling viewing from beginning to end. Richard Benjamin appears to have forsaken his own acting career in favour of pursuing directing instead and he has certainly selected a very wise choice of material this time around. Benjamin's career as an actor has often reflected that of someone like Clint Eastwood in a lot of ways. They only specialised in playing a particular type of character for the most part and this undoubtedly restricted their choices principally because they may not have coincided with audience expectations concerning what they might have wanted to see them appearing in, but they have now successfully managed to extend their range into other genres as a director and apparently with great acclaim. Hopefully this is a trend which will continue well into the future.